The G'Knight Ride also featured 1-mile and 3-mile runs, and von Minden, a member of Bicycle Longmont, said his daughter completed last year's 3-mile route.

As for Mia, she said she was looking forward to the longer event: "It's going to be fun."

The G'Knight Ride's fans aren't limited to Longmont or Boulder County cyclists.

"We're from Greeley, and we thought we'd come down here and do some riding today," said Bob Walch.

Walch said he and his wife, Robyn Hess, traveled here from Greeley, got on their bikes when they arrived and then cycled to Boulder and back on Saturday before joining the afternoon G'Knight Ride crowd starting to converge on Roosevelt Park.

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Samantha Otto, who was parking her bicycle and tending to 5-year-old daughter Sofie and 3-year-old son Van while waiting for her husband, Ben Otto, to get there, said this would be her first G'Knight Ride but that "we do the Wednesday night bike rides" sponsored by Bicycle Longmont, "as often as we can."

"It's just really fun to ride in a group," she said, and the community's support for occasions like Wednesday bike nights and the annual G'Knght Ride "is just awesome."

Jennifer Teece of Lafayette said it's "a cool day for the whole family." She said that though this is her third G'Knight Ride, it'll be the first on a two-wheeler for her 4-year-old son, Powell Dawson-Teece, who just graduated to that bike and would be riding the 1-mile loop.

Some of Saturday's attendees sported costumes, as well as cycling gear -- most notably some of the characters who'll be hanging out at next month's Kinetic Sculpture Race, set for July 20 at Union Reservoir.

Cycling wasn't the only sport in the spotlight Saturday. The Boulder County Bombers were there to recruit women to their roller derby team and "burn up the track this summer," demonstrating their own skating skills in a mock game under the Roosevelt Park pavilion.

Jennifer Kemp attaches a bib number to her son Adam Holwick, 4, before riding in the third annual G'Knight Ride Saturday evening.
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Nor was everyone there for the cycling-themed vendors and races.

Two sets of grandparents, Dale and Judy Hruby of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Pat and Binky O'Connell of Northglenn, came to watch their granddaughter, 13-year-old Kayla Hruby, do her thing as the lead singer in her Westminster neighborhood band, Wires Crossed, the opening act in an afternoon and night of G'Knight Ride musical entertainment.

This year's G'Knight Ride also featured the Rocky Mountain Bike Festival, a corporation now owned by Scott Conlin, a Bicycle Longmont board member and one of the coordinators of the ride. He said he hopes to turn the Bike Festival over to Bicycle Longmont, with the Bike Festival sponsoring a week of activities leading up to the 2014 G'Knight Ride itself.